Shirakaba (Japanese: 白樺; White Birch) was an avant-garde literary and art magazine which existed in the period between 1910 and 1923.

Shirakaba was launched in 1910 by a group of the Japanese writers, art critics, artists, including Naoya Shiga, Takeo Arishima, and Saneatsu Mushanokōji.

[1] Based on the views and works of Leo Tolstoy they attempted to advance the ideologies of individualism, idealism, and humanitarianism into the Japanese society.

[5] In the next issues it contained the daguerreotype prints of paintings by the post-impressionist artists, including Auguste Rodin, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, and Paul Cézanne.

[6] In the January 1912 issue the magazine published Yanagi Sōetsu's manifesto entitled Kakumei no gaka (Japanese: The Revolutionary Artist).